Abstract base class for objects that contain fields. More...

#include <Inventor/fields/SoFieldContainer.h>

Inheritance diagram for SoFieldContainer:

Public Member Functions
void	setToDefaults ()
	Sets all fields in this object to their default values.

SbBool	hasDefaultValues () const
	Returns TRUE if all of the object's fields have their default values.

SbBool	fieldsAreEqual (const SoFieldContainer *fc) const
	Returns TRUE if this object's fields are exactly equal to fc's fields.

void	copyFieldValues (const SoFieldContainer *fc, SbBool copyConnections=FALSE)
	Copies the contents of fc's fields into this object's fields.

SoNONUNICODE SbBool	set (const char *fieldDataString)
	Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string, which should be a string in the Open Inventor file format.

SbBool	set (const SbString &fieldDataString)
	Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string, which should be a string in the Open Inventor file format.

void	get (SbString &fieldDataString)
	Returns the values of the fields of this object in the Open Inventor ASCII file format in the given string.

virtual int	getFields (SoFieldList &list) const
	Appends references to all of this object's fields to resultList, and returns the number of fields appended.

virtual int	getAllFields (SoFieldList &list) const
	Returns a list of fields, including the eventIn's and eventOut's.

virtual SoField *	getField (const SbName &fieldName) const
	Returns a the field of this object whose name is fieldName.

virtual SoField *	getEventIn (const SbName &fieldName) const
	Returns a the eventIn with the given name.

virtual SoField *	getEventOut (const SbName &fieldName) const
	Returns the eventOut with the given name.

SbBool	getFieldName (const SoField *field, SbName &fieldName) const
	Returns the name of the given field in the fieldName argument.

SbBool	enableNotify (SbBool flag)
	Notification at this Field Container is enabled (if flag == TRUE) or disabled (if flag == FALSE).

SbBool	isNotifyEnabled () const
	Notification is the process of telling interested objects that this object has changed.

virtual void	setUserData (void *data)
	Sets application data.

void *	getUserData (void) const
	Gets user application data.

Public Member Functions inherited from SoBase
virtual void	touch ()
	Marks an instance as modified, simulating a change to it.

virtual SbName	getName () const
	Returns the name of an instance.

virtual void	setName (const SbName &name)
	Sets the name of an instance.

void	setSynchronizable (const bool b)
	Sets this to be a ScaleViz synchronizable object.

bool	isSynchronizable () const
	Gets the ScaleViz synchronizable state of this object.

Public Member Functions inherited from SoRefCounter
void	ref () const
	Adds a reference to an instance.

void	unref () const
	Removes a reference from an instance.

void	unrefNoDelete () const
	unrefNoDelete() should be called when it is desired to decrement the reference count, but not delete the instance if this brings the reference count to zero.

int	getRefCount () const
	Returns current reference count.

void	lock () const
	lock this instance.

void	unlock () const
	unlock this instance.

Public Member Functions inherited from SoTypedObject
virtual SoType	getTypeId () const =0
	Returns the type identifier for a specific instance.

SbBool	isOfType (const SoType &type) const
	Returns TRUE if this object is of the type specified in type or is derived from that type.

template<typename TypedObjectClass >
SbBool	isOfType () const
	Returns TRUE if this object is of the type of class TypedObjectClass or is derived from that class.

Static Public Member Functions
static SoType	getClassTypeId ()
	Returns the type of this class.

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoBase
static SoType	getClassTypeId ()
	Returns type identifier for this class.

Static Public Member Functions inherited from SoTypedObject
static SoType	getClassTypeId ()
	Returns the type identifier for this class.

Friends
class	SoFieldContainerExt

Detailed Description

Abstract base class for objects that contain fields.

SoFieldContainer is the base class for engines and nodes. It contains methods for finding out what fields an object has, controlling notification, and for dealing with all of the fields of an object at once.

The fields of an engine are its inputs. Note that even though an engine's output corresponds to a specific type of field, an engine output is not a field.

Member Function Documentation

◆ copyFieldValues()

void SoFieldContainer::copyFieldValues	(	const SoFieldContainer *	fc,
		SbBool	copyConnections = `FALSE`
	)

Copies the contents of fc's fields into this object's fields.

fc must be the same type as this object. If copyConnections is TRUE, then if any of fc's fields are connected then this object's fields will also be connected to the same source.

◆ enableNotify()

SbBool SoFieldContainer::enableNotify ( SbBool flag )

inline

Notification at this Field Container is enabled (if flag == TRUE) or disabled (if flag == FALSE).

The returned Boolean value indicates whether notification was enabled immediately prior to applying this method.

Definition at line 223 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

◆ fieldsAreEqual()

SbBool SoFieldContainer::fieldsAreEqual ( const SoFieldContainer * fc ) const

Returns TRUE if this object's fields are exactly equal to fc's fields.

If fc is not exactly same type as this object, FALSE is returned.

◆ get()

void SoFieldContainer::get ( SbString & fieldDataString )

inline

Returns the values of the fields of this object in the Open Inventor ASCII file format in the given string.

Fields whose isDefault() bit is set will not be part of the string. You can use the SoField::get() method to get a field's value as a string even if has its default value.

Definition at line 174 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

◆ getAllFields()

virtual int SoFieldContainer::getAllFields ( SoFieldList & list ) const

virtual

Returns a list of fields, including the eventIn's and eventOut's.

◆ getClassTypeId()

static SoType SoFieldContainer::getClassTypeId ( )

static

Returns the type of this class.

◆ getEventIn()

virtual SoField * SoFieldContainer::getEventIn ( const SbName & fieldName ) const

virtual

Returns a the eventIn with the given name.

If no such eventIn exists, NULL is returned.

◆ getEventOut()

virtual SoField * SoFieldContainer::getEventOut ( const SbName & fieldName ) const

virtual

Returns the eventOut with the given name.

If no such eventOut exists, NULL is returned.

◆ getField()

virtual SoField * SoFieldContainer::getField ( const SbName & fieldName ) const

virtual

Returns a the field of this object whose name is fieldName.

Returns NULL if there is no field with the given name.

◆ getFieldName()

SbBool SoFieldContainer::getFieldName	(	const SoField *	field,
		SbName &	fieldName
	)		const

Returns the name of the given field in the fieldName argument.

Returns FALSE if field is not a member of this object.

◆ getFields()

virtual int SoFieldContainer::getFields ( SoFieldList & list ) const

virtual

Appends references to all of this object's fields to resultList, and returns the number of fields appended.

The types of the fields can be determined using SoField::isOfType() and SoField::getTypeId(). The names of the fields can be determined by passing the field reference to the getFieldName() method (see below).

◆ getUserData()

void * SoFieldContainer::getUserData ( void ) const

inline

Gets user application data.

Definition at line 267 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

◆ hasDefaultValues()

SbBool SoFieldContainer::hasDefaultValues ( ) const

Returns TRUE if all of the object's fields have their default values.

This will return TRUE even if a field's isDefault() method returns FALSE - for example, if a field's default value is 0.0 and you setValue(0.0) that field, the default flag will be set to FALSE (because it would be too slow to compare the field against its default value every time setValue is called). However, hasDefaultValues() would return TRUE in this case.

◆ isNotifyEnabled()

SbBool SoFieldContainer::isNotifyEnabled ( ) const

inline

Notification is the process of telling interested objects that this object has changed.

Notification is needed to make engines and sensors function, is used to keep SoPaths up to date when the scene graph's topology changes, and is also used to invalidate rendering or bounding box caches.

Notification is normally enabled, but can be disabled on a node by node (or engine by engine) basis. If you are making extensive changes to a large part of the scene graph then disabling notification can increase performance, at the expense of increased responsibility for making sure that any interested engines, sensors or paths are kept up to date.

For example, if you will be making a lot of changes to a small part of your scene graph and you know that there are no engines or sensors attached to nodes in that part of the scene graph, you might disable notification on the nodes you are changing, modify them, re-enable notification, and then touch() one of the nodes to cause a redraw.

However, you should profile your application and make sure that notification is taking a significant amount of time before going to the trouble of manually controlling notification.

Definition at line 248 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

◆ set() [1/2]

SoNONUNICODE SbBool SoFieldContainer::set ( const char * fieldDataString )

inline

Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string, which should be a string in the Open Inventor file format.

TRUE is returned if the string was valid Open Inventor file format.

For example, you could set the fields of an SoCube by doing:

SoCube* cube = new SoCube();

cube->set( "width 1.0 height 2.0 depth 3.2" );

SoCube

Cube shape node.

Definition SoCube.h:123

SoFieldContainer::set

SoNONUNICODE SbBool set(const char *fieldDataString)

Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string,...

Definition SoFieldContainer.h:137

Non Unicode: This function should not be used in a Unicode application.

Definition at line 137 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

◆ set() [2/2]

SbBool SoFieldContainer::set ( const SbString & fieldDataString )

inline

Sets one or more fields in this object to the values specified in the given string, which should be a string in the Open Inventor file format.

TRUE is returned if the string was valid Open Inventor file format.

For example, you could set the fields of an SoCube by doing:

SoCube* cube = new SoCube();

cube->set( "width 1.0 height 2.0 depth 3.2" );

Definition at line 165 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

◆ setToDefaults()

void SoFieldContainer::setToDefaults ( )

Sets all fields in this object to their default values.

◆ setUserData()

virtual void SoFieldContainer::setUserData ( void * data )

inlinevirtual

Sets application data.

This method stores a single value of type void*, which is not used for any purpose by Open Inventor, but can be retrieved by the application. Applications can use this value to store, for example, physical properties, inventory tracking numbers, etc. with a node. Default is 0 (null pointer).

Definition at line 260 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

Friends And Related Symbol Documentation

◆ SoFieldContainerExt

friend class SoFieldContainerExt

friend

Definition at line 428 of file SoFieldContainer.h.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

Inventor/fields/SoFieldContainer.h

Open Inventor Release 2023.2.3

Public Member Functions

Static Public Member Functions

Friends

Detailed Description

SEE ALSO

Member Function Documentation

◆ copyFieldValues()

◆ enableNotify()

◆ fieldsAreEqual()

◆ get()

◆ getAllFields()

◆ getClassTypeId()

◆ getEventIn()

◆ getEventOut()

◆ getField()

◆ getFieldName()

◆ getFields()

◆ getUserData()

◆ hasDefaultValues()

◆ isNotifyEnabled()

◆ set() [1/2]

◆ set() [2/2]

◆ setToDefaults()

◆ setUserData()

Friends And Related Symbol Documentation

◆ SoFieldContainerExt